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Chatham “battered but vibrant,” per the New York Times

Chatham streetscape

The New York Times has taken a look, in print and in video, at Chatham, a neighborhood long considered by many to be the jewel of Chicago’s South Side. The Times’ piece is an informative follow-on to the series of articles the Sun-Times ran on Chatham 18 months ago. Worlee Glover of the Concerned Citizens ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 8, 2013
News & trendsMarket conditions

Fewer housing units occupied in Cook County than 10 years ago

We’ve based a number of recent posts on an interactive New York Times map of a variety of demographic data at the census tract level throughout the United States. The Times just published another of its fascinating interactive maps of Census data. The current map plots a variety of data points for every county in ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 25, 2011
North ShoreEvanston

A no-confidence vote in Evanston public schools?

305 Greenleaf, Evanston IL

The New York Times interactive map of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data makes it easy to learn a great deal about communities at the census tract level. One of the 22 available data points is the estimated number of elementary school-age children in a census tract, and the percentage of those children who ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 9, 2011